Musical Category Electroacoustic Music ("tape music")
Instrumentation (general) Electroacoustic
Premiere
Date 1998/Nov
Organization/Event Music in November Festival
Venue Culturgest - Great Hall
Town Lisbon
Country Portugal
Program Notes
Comunicações is, in some aspects a "programmatic" electroacoustic piece, mostly based on concrete sounds including sounds from the Lisbon port, communication satellites and texts in more than 30 different languages from a short waves radio, although pure synthesised and instrumental sounds are also an important part of the sound material for the whole composition.
The idea of communications not only underlies the sound material, but also the inner relationships upon which the piece was composed.
Comunicações was conceived at the Miso Studio in Lisbon - Portugal, and was commissioned by the Lisbon World Fair Expo'98 to be part of a sound installation in the Knowledge of the Sea Pavilion. It was later remixed and subject to some minor changes for the concert situation. The concert version was premiered in Lisbon in November 1998.
Commission
Date 1998
Commissioning Body Expo '98 - Lisbon World Exposition
Town Lisbon
Country Portugal
Circulation
Work
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Date
Organization/Event
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Town
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Performers
Notes
Inv Row
Comunicações
Performance
2011/Apr/18
São Roque Museum - Cloisters
Lisbon
Portugal
Miso Ensemble
Notes
Comunicações
Performance
2008/Mar/26
Seia Conservatory of Music / Electroacoustic Music Days